Recently widowed Ina Secrest mourns the death of her husband with her children, Vontella Secrest, Lois Secrest, Juanita Secrest, and Ray Secrest, Los Angeles, 1935
US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph may be associated with the article, “POLICE FEAR OUT BREAK: W.P.A. Projects Guarded Precautions Also Taken for Today’s Inquest Into Slaying of Six,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 1935: A2. This photograph may be associated with the article, “EX-WORKER MASSACRES FOUR ON JOB: Two More Men Near Death Water Carrier Runs Wild With Gun in W.P.A. Ditch; Lynch Threat Balked Walter-Carrier’s Grudge That Flared Into Orgy of Death Shown at W.P.A. Job Four W.P.A. Workers Murdered by Comrade Water Carrier Snipes At Emplyees [sic] and Shoots Down Fleeing Men; Blames ‘Persecution’,” Los Angeles Times 17 Dec. 1935: 1. This photograph may be associated with the article, “MASSACRE HEARING SET: Death Charges Lodged Inquest Will Be Conducted Tomorrow in Slaying of Five on W.P.A. Job,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 1935: 18. Text from negative sleeve: 4136—Vontella Secrest-13, Mrs. Ina Secrest-, Lois Secrest-7, Juanita Secrest-12, Ray Secrest-9, Widow and children of Shooting Victim (on WPA project @ LaBrea + Exposition) 12/18/35, [Stamped:] DEC 23 1935. Handwritten on negative: Vontella Secrest-13, Mrs Ina Secrest, Lois “ -7, Juanita “ -12, Ray “ -9, 12/18/35.
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